Your Weirdest Film
POSTED BY: TheSomnambulist
UPDATED: Saturday, August 18, 2007 12:02
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For me the weirdest movies would have to be either Slava Tsukerman's Liquid Sky or Lynch's 77 classic Eraserhead.
Karl Elan Vital
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You folks are bringing back flashes of serious wierdness on a few of these.
I *loved* Being John Malkovich.
I remember The Man Who Fell to Earth. It was definitely bizzare.
Tempopo was kind of whacked, but I still liked it.(Japanese food and fetish film, sort of.. definitely wierd...)
Clockwork Orange is right up there for strangeness.
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Oh yeah, NAKED LUNCH. I forgot about that.
I once took a film studies class that focused on David Cronenberg from the new head of the film department Christine Ramsay. She showed every one of his movies, and you can tell that while there was a definite shift in his work, David Cronenberg has and will always be a fucked up director.
He started out making typical genre flicks that were really gory. He was dubbed the Prince of Blood, and one of his films SHIVERS actually inspired an article called "You Should Know How Bad This Movie Is, You Paid For it." and it was about how this film was funded by the tax credit set up by the Canadian government to finance Canadian made film and that the author was pissed that this Invasion of the Body Snatchers rip off that turned everyone in this apartment building into parasite infested sex fiends. In that first half of his career, he also made VIDEODROME which not only predicted so much of what our society has become but also beat THE MATRIX by about fifteen years in dealing with the notion of what is reality in a sci-fi context. It's my favorite movie of his. He also did THE DEAD ZONE and THE FLY, so for a time being he did go Hollywood.
Then he made DEAD RINGERS.
You wanna see fucked up? How about a movie about two twin gynecologists, both played by Jeremy Irons, who both obsess over a "mutant woman" who has a triple chambered uterus (I think). It was a good thing he made THE FLY and that it was a big hit. Otherwise, no one in the world would have funded that movie. I still don't know who decided to finally pick up the tab.
After that, he moved away from the genre movies and started making these arty, bizzare movies that were more insane one after the next.
NAKED LUNCH is actually supposed to be a metaphorical bio-pic about the author William S. Burroughs and how he became an author. If you've actually read the book, you know that it is truly unadaptable. So Cronenberg decided to just tell the story on how he became an author and just fill the movie with various references to the book as well as his other books.
Movie still doesn't make any sense, IMHO. Just wanted to clarify however slightly what the movie was supposed to be.
The whole period of the 90's and the first half of this decade was I guess his "arty" period. A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE I think is his first commercial hit in about twenty years. And even though it's creepy at times, to me it doesn't really feel like a Cronenberg movie. There aren't any of his normal touches in the movie, so I actually think it's a little overrated.
He has a new movie coming out this fall called EASTERN PROMISES.
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=easternpromises
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ADAPTATION by Charlie (and donald!) Kaufman. Isn't that fucked up? Just a very odd lets-break-the-fourth-wall-several-times-over movie. And a good acting job by Nick Cage as well, damn the man can be patchy.
Oh and BUBBA HO-TEP. Its about Elvis and a black JFK fighting off an Egyptian mummy in a texas nursing home. Wierd wierd crap!
I don't wanna explode!
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Originally posted by Stormwind:
Oh and BUBBA HO-TEP. Its about Elvis and a black JFK fighting off an Egyptian mummy in a texas nursing home. Wierd wierd crap!
An ass sucking mummy at that. A little slow but Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are great in that movie.
For kinda artsy wierd but good, has anyone here ever seen Bent? Clive Owen as a gay man in a Nazi concentration camp. I think the most people on screen at any one time is about four. It's a quiet kind of movie.
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I was gonna say Bubba Ho-tep, but seems I was beat to that punch...so, let's see...
Weirdest Kung Fu Movie - Fantasy Mission Force
(it has Jackie Chan in it, which is why I own it, but he made the film to repay a favor. It has, among other weirdness, 2 Scottish Asians and a final battle involving Mad Max style car gangs with swastikas painted on their vehicles, which had nothing to do with what little plot it did have)
Weirdest Movie in a good way - Shaun of the Dead
Weirdest Movie in a bad way - Kentucky Fried Movie
That's my wooden nickel's worth...
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OMG!!! I thought I was one of the only two people in America to have seen Battle Royal!!! I freakin' LOVE that movie, but, weird?? Yeah... a bit... I heard that someone is adopting it and making an American version at some point, release date is 2008-ish... As to Shaun... damn funny movie, damn good one too... Gotta love all the references to... pretty much EVERY cult zombie movie ever made
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You knw that Battle Royal is also a manga and a novel right? If you want some more character development then go read those.
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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.
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Is it weird that I don't think most of these films are 'weird'?
Strange or unusual or campy doesn't equal weird. I'll give you Brazil. Maybe Baron Munchausen...that could be clouded with watching it with my dad. Audition is bizarre. Um, I can't think of any movie I'd classify as weird. Sorry, Ric.
I know folks that have seen Battle Royale. It's more well known than you think.
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Campy? Phantom of the Paradise!
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